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Thu 7th August 2014
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GoDaddy owner Bob Parsons spends $1M on Christine Jones’ run for governor - Parsons paying for attack ads against former employee’s competition for Governor. GoDaddy founder Bob Parsons is lending a helping hand to his former employee Christine Jones. Jones, who was GoDaddy’s general counsel, is now running for governor of Arizona. Parsons said he has already spent $1M funding Better Leaders for Arizona, which is running attack ads against competitor Doug Ducey. He might spend more. Parsons’ role in the ads was suspected after one of ... read more ...
Thu 12th December 2013
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GoDaddy owner Bob Parsons joins The Giving Pledge - Bob and Renee Parsons pledge over half of their wealth to charitable causes. GoDaddy founder Bob Parsons and his wife Renee Parsons have joined The Giving Pledge, an initiative in which wealthy people pledge to give half or more of their wealth to charity. Parsons’ net worth is estimated at over $1 billion. The couple has already made a number of seven figure donations, including to veteran causes. For example, he gave $1 million to establish The Bob Parsons Veterans ... read more ...
Fri 18th October 2013
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Bob Parsons buys selling agency - GoDaddy founder buys a marketing firm. GoDaddy founder Bob Parsons apprently never wants to be bored. He owns a bunch of motorcycle dealers and has been snapping up real estate in the Phoenix area. His latest purchase: a marketing and advertising firm. Parsons bought Scottsdale firm Martz Agency, which will be renamed Martz Parsons. His many organizations, including Harley-Davidson of Scottsdale, Go AZ Motorcycles, Spooky Fast Parts Engineering, YAM Properties, ... read more ...
Tue 5th March 2013
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Bob Parsons lands during #974 on Forbes Billionaires List - Parsons is on Forbes’ latest billionaires list. Go Daddy founder Bob Parsons is one of the 1,000 richest people in the world according to Forbes’ recently released Billionaires list. Parsons is tied for #974 with an estimated wealth of $1.5 billion. That’s good enough for a rank of #328 in the United States. (Parsons has disputed the $1.5 billion number with Forbes in the past.) The bulk of that wealth came from building Go Daddy into the dominant domain name ... read more ...
Tue 18th December 2012
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2012 Impact Stories: changing of a ensure during Go Daddy - Major changes at the top of the world’s largest domain name registrar. In late 2011 Go Daddy closed on an investment from KKR, Silver Lake, and Technology Crossover Ventures. We all knew changes would result, but how they manifested themselves in the C-suite was a big story this year. When the investment closed last year, Go Daddy founder Bob Parsons stepped down from the CEO position and tapped longtime Go Daddy president Warren Adelman to fill his shoes. The first ... read more ...
Tue 5th July 2011
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In Case You Missed It, Friday Was Not a Slow News Day in a Domain Industry - Biggest domain name company transaction ever announced just before the U.S. holiday. The Friday before a holiday weekend is usually a slow news day. But I heard some whispers Friday that Go Daddy was going to make a big announcement, hence my tweet around noon. Indeed, a few hours later Go Daddy announced that it took an investment from KKR, Silver Lake, and Technology Crossover Ventures. I talked with GoDaddy founder Bob Parsons Friday evening. Since most of my ... read more ...
Fri 1st July 2011
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Bob Parsons Explains Go Daddy – KKR Deal to Domain Name Wire - Investment makes 36 millionaires, will help company expand overseas and acquire complementary businesses. I just got off the phone with GoDaddy.com founder Bob Parsons, who explained the deal his company just struck with KKR, Silver Lake, and Technology Crossover Ventures. Contrary to reports in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, this was not an outright acquisition. Parsons remains the single largest shareholder in the company in what he terms a “partnership”. Before ... read more ...
Fri 3rd June 2011
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Bob Parsons to PETA: Look in a Mirror - Parsons tweets about PETA hypocrisy. After Go Daddy founder and CEO Bob Parsons killed an elephant in Zimbabwe, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals was quick to pounce on him. The company moved its domain names from Go Daddy to a rival domain name registrar. But Parsons won’t let PETA get away that easy. Today he tweeted the following to his 34,000 followers: The first link is to a PETA story about “Deadly Destinations“, which blasts places like Disney’s ... read more ...
Thu 31st March 2011
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PETA Plays Into Bob Parson’s Hands Over Elephant Hunting - PETA is closing its Go Daddy account over elephant hunting incident. Poor Bob Parsons. The Go Daddy founder is about to lose a few hundred domain name registrations from its client People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). I’m sure he’s just shaking in his boots. The group is enraged about an elephant hunting video he took in Zimbabwe. The video caught attention after being posted at online petition site Change.org. Nevermind that Parsons posted a similar ... read more ...
Tue 1st February 2011
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Bob Parsons Tells His Story during DOMAINfest - Bob Parsons talks to a standing-room only crowd at DOMAINfest. He carries a rock star persona. And he’s definitely a rock star to the domain name industry. Monday afternoon Go Daddy founder Bob Parsons told his story — from his troubles in Catholic school to serving in the Marines to finally getting a breakthrough and turning Parsons Technology into a $64 million payday — to an enthusiastic crowd at DOMAINfest in Santa Monica. And after his talk, Parsons looked ... read more ...
Mon 13th December 2010
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Video and Highlights from Go Daddy’s $4M Holiday Bash - Scenes from a four million dollar holiday party. Go Daddy held its annual holiday party at Chase Field in Phoenix on Saturday evening. In this video you’ll see some highlights from the night. You’ll also wonder if the event really took place at Chase Field. It looks more more like an amusement park to me. Here are some highlights from the video: GoDaddy CEO Bob Parsons gave some interesting stats on what happens at Go Daddy every minute: -75 domain names are ... read more ...
Thu 2nd December 2010
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Brilliant: Bob Parsons to Keynote DOMAINfest - Go Daddy founder to give keynote presentation at DOMAINfest. I didn’t see this coming, but it’s brilliant: Go Daddy founder Bob Parsons will keynote February’s DOMAINfest Global conference in Santa Monica. DOMAINfest is run by Oversee.net, which owns Moniker. Go Daddy is certainly its #1 competitor for domain registration. Go Daddy is the biggest domain name registrar and manages perhaps 20 times as many domains as Moniker. But DOMAINfest is an industry ... read more ...
Wed 24th November 2010
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Queen Cancels Holiday Party, But Go Daddy Goes All In - Domain registrar to continue tradition of big holiday parties. The latest issue of Bloomberg Businessweek has a story titled “The End of the Office Holiday Party” that prominently features domain name registrar Go Daddy. The article starts off by mentioning that Queen Elizabeth II canceled this year’s Christmas Party, saying it wouldn’t be right to throw a lavish party while asking everyone else to cut back. But there’s one company that’s not cutting back, ... read more ...
Mon 25th October 2010
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WSJ: Go Daddy No Longer for Sale - World’s largest domain name registrar supposedly no longer for sale. The Wall Street Journal, which originally reported that domain name registrar GoDaddy was for sale, is now saying the company is off the market. The Journal reports that the sales process was cut off last week. A number of private equity companies were in the mix, and the story suggests a sale price of $1.5 billion to $2.0 billion was possible. So Bob Parsons will continue to control the company. ... read more ...
Wed 2nd June 2010
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Political Attack Video Associates Candidate with Bob Parsons - Time for Bob to whip out the checkbook… PARSONS, ROBERT SCOTTSDALE,AZ 85262 GODADDY.COM/PRESIDENT 10/26/06 $10,000 Democratic Congressional Campaign Cmte (D) PARSONS, ROBERT SCOTTSDALE,AZ 85262 GODADDY.COM/CEO 12/15/09 $2,400 Boucher, Rick (D) PARSONS, ROBERT SCOTTSDALE,AZ 85262 GODADDY.COM/CEO 9/25/07 $2,300 Stevens, Ted (R) PARSONS, ROBERT SCOTTSDALE,AZ 85262 GODADDY.COM/CEO 9/25/07 $2,300 Stevens, Ted (R) PARSONS, ROBERT SCOTTSDALE,AZ 85262 GODADDY.COM/FOUNDER AND CEO 9/13/07 $2,300 McConnell, ... read more ...
Sat 27th February 2010
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Go Daddy CEO Bob Parsons Buys Cher’s House - Bob Parsons buys house at auction for $8.72 million. According to The Wall Street Journal, Go Daddy founder and CEO Bob Parsons just bought a house in Hawaii owned by singer Cher. The house went up for auction, and Parsons was the winning bidder at $8.72 million. The house description isn’t bad, if I do say so myself: The Hawaiian property, at the Four Seasons’ Hualalai resort, includes a main house flanked by four one-bedroom bungalows. Singer-actress Cher bought ... read more ...
Tue 15th December 2009
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Go Daddy Revenue Tops $750 Million - A look behind the numbers at the world’s biggest domain name registrar. Bob Parsons has more tosmile about than just theGo Daddy Girls. Yesterday I wrote about Go Daddy’s revenue for 2009, and I extrapolated that the company grossed $600 million this year. That’s an incredible number — but the real number is even higher. In his opening remarks at the Go Daddy holiday party this past weekend, CEO Bob Parsons announced that the company has topped $750 million ... read more ...
Mon 14th December 2009
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Go Daddy Goes Big with $3 Million Holiday Party and Record Donations - Go Daddy throws big party and makes major charitable contributions. Go Daddy CEO Bob Parsons certainly lives by the “go big or go home” mantra. As evidence, his company topped last year’s $2 million holiday party with a $3 million party this year. The event was held last Saturday night at Chase Field in Phoenix. Among the notable guests were boxer Muhammad Ali, a friend of Bob Parsons and Shane Tews, VP VeriSign Global Public Policy Govt. Relations. The ... read more ...
Wed 20th May 2009
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.Me during 250,000: What’s Next? - 250,000 .me domain names have been registered. Here’s what it means. 250,000 .me domain names have been registered since its relaunch earlier this year. I draw two conclusions from this. First, it shows the power a registrar has in pushing a domain. .Me is run by a partnership between Afilias and GoDaddy. GoDaddy has aggressively pushed the domain and dissed others at the same time. (Bob Parsons stopped using BobParsons.tv and switched to BobParsons.me). ... read more ...
Wed 17th December 2008
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Go Daddy To Shut Down Standard Tactics, LLC - Standard Tactics and 60-day lock discussed on Radio Go Daddy. I just concluded my interview with Go Daddy CEO Bob Parsons on his internet radio show. It is available for on demand listening RadioGoDaddy.com. Perhaps the biggest news that came out of the interview is that GoDaddy is effectively shutting down Standard Tactics. Parsons said it had about 33,000 domains in the subsidiary and 8,000 that made most of the money. This is lower than I privately estimated ... read more ...
Tue 16th December 2008
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GoDaddy Changes Expired Domain Pricing - In response to Standard Tactics coverage, GoDaddy has changed starting bids on TDNAM auctions. Last week I mentioned that GoDaddy was making a change to its TDNAM auctions based on some of my commentary on Standard Tactics. In my commentary I had suggested that, by setting minimum bid prices higher than the standard $10 bid price, GoDaddy was effectively bidding against its customers on TDNAM. In response, GoDaddy has changed how it prices expired domains. All domains ... read more ...
Thu 11th December 2008
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Domain Name Wire on Go Daddy Radio Show - I’ll have an open talk with Go Daddy CEO Bob Parsons next week. I’ve written a lot of good things about domain registrar GoDaddy over the past few years. But I’ve also called the company out numerous times when it did no-so-good things: such as Standard Tactics. Yesterday Go Daddy CEO Bob Parsons called me to talk about Standard Tactics and invite me to be his guest on next week’s Radio GoDaddy show. I accepted the offer. On Today’s Radio Go Daddy show, ... read more ...
Mon 8th December 2008
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Commentary: Why Standard Tactics is a Problem - Analysis of Go Daddy’s Standard Tactics subsidiary.UPDATE 12/17/08: GoDaddy is shutting down Standard Tactics. It’s been five days since Domain Name Wire published its expose on The Go Daddy Group’s subsidiary Standard Tactics LLC. Judging from the over 100 comments, it appears to have struck a nerve in a lot of people. Interestingly, I received some feedback that people “disagreed” with my story. This is interesting because there really aren’t any ... read more ...
Tue 23rd September 2008
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GoDaddy Files Patent for “Domain Name Hijack Protection” - Patent covers system to automatically reject domain name transfers. GoDaddy has filed a patent for a system to protect against domain name theft. The patent lists GoDaddy CEO Bob Parsons as the sole inventor and was filed last year, but was not published until this month. United States Patent Application 20080215716 describes a service subscribed to by customers in which domain transfer-out notices are automatically ignored. A notice is sent to the customer informing ... read more ...
Thu 3rd April 2008
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Why GoDaddy Spent Lobbying Money on Pharmacy Issues - GoDaddy’s pharmacy lobbying is related to online pharmacy bill. In February I wrote about GoDaddy and its 2007 $580,000 lobby bill on capitol hill. One thing struck me as odd: one of the issues GoDaddy spent money on was pharmacy. Here’s what I wrote: According to the company’s self-reported lobbying reports, its lobbying activity included computers information technology, copyright trademark, telecommunications, law enforcement, pharmacy, and consumer product ... read more ...